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Original Tale

... cheek and chill the coldest heart. But of the many stirring stories told me by one or the other, 'twixt Bude and Bideford, none that I remember, of domestic character, pleased me so much the story of Catherine of Clovelly; interwoven as was, when first I ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1870
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3986 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Wit and Humour

... always showed two; And the old wig he wore he once bought of a Jew At very long credit, if rumour be true. Now Tim was not short, and Tim was not tall, No giant girth, and yet very small; A very long coat 'neath a very broad hat, And a waistcoat once black ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1870
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1624 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TO THE NMRVOUM DMBILITATBD. TTEALTH AND HAPPINESS for the NERVOUS / . and DEBILITATED.—A single copy of New V READ

... Ague- CHLORODYNE acts like a charm Diarrhoea, and is the only specific in Cholera and Dysentery. CHLORODYNE effectually cute short all attacks of Epilepsy, Hysteria, Palpitation and Spasms. CHLORODYNE is the only palliative in Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Gout ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1870
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1308 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VELLACOTT AND EVANS T) EG RESPECTFULLY TO ANNOUNCE, THAT THEIR ° ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE Will commence on TUESDAY ..

... AMOUNTING TO £2,000, NO. 4, HIGH-STREET, BARNSTAPLE. THE aboTe STOCK of MR. SAMUEL SHORT (late Mallett), Jeweller and Watchmaker, is now being offered to the Public (for a short time only) AT AND UNDER COST PRICE. The whole has been Marked Down in Plain Figures ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1870
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1212 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

General News

... avaricious, for his fees are devoted to foundiug and endowing churches and monasteries. The Khedive. —Ismail Pasha is very short stature, and his lack of inches is the more apparent from the vast breadth of his chest and shoulders. There is nothing about ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1870
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2805 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Crimes and Casualties

... the manager, and Mr. Griffiu received some burus in rendering assistance. Revolting Cruelty to an Idiot Brother.—A shocking story comes from Ancoats. On Wednesday a man named Thomas Lightfoot, a grocer, carrying on business in E very-street, Ancoats, was ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1870
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5812 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Original Tale

... making money, his hopeful son and heir was no less possessed of the necessary qualifications how to spend it. In short, it was the old story—the father saved, for the son to squander; and when the father could amass no more, and the son came to his own ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1870
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3080 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Local and District Intelligence

... demanded and paid for passengers and luggage. 25. Tolls for propelling power—one penny per mile. 26. .Regulations to tolls: short distances, fractional parts, and weights. 27. Tolls for small parcels and articles of great weight. 28. Maximum rates for ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1870
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 9724 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Little Story.—Fanny was pretty, and had a clear sweet voice. Fred proposed to her, and she said Yes. Revealing

... Little Story.—Fanny was pretty, and had a clear sweet voice. Fred proposed to her, and she said Yes. Revealing his happiness to his friend Frank, Fred told of the joyous riug there was in Fanny's voice when she accepted him. A wedding-ring, I suppose ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1870
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 666 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BOR CK'S GOLD MEDAL BAKING POWDER For which TWO GOLD MEDALS have been awarded. tIOR making delicious BREAD ..

... CHLORODYNE acts like charm in Diarrhoea, and is the only specific in Cholera and Dysentery. ' CHLORODYNE effectually cute short all attacks of Epilepsy, Hysteria, Palpitation and Spasms. * CHLORODYNE is the only palliative Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Gout ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 1870
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 528 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Original Tale

... particularly of a poor half-witted girl, like Rachel, the miserable drudge and slave of such a crafty creature as Joyse Because my story would be untold without her; and on Rachel will principally depend its chief issues, as far as the success or defeat of Joyse's ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 1870
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3197 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

North Devon Journal. BARNSTAPLE, THURSDAY, Jan. 20th, 1870 The several departments of the public service are ..

... on the part of M. Grousset, the writer of the article. The accounts of what then transpired are conflicting. The Prince's story is, that he had no sooner asked his visitors whether they were sent by M. Rochefort, than M. Noir struck him violently in the ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 1870
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2284 | Page: 4 | Tags: none